Scholarship Infromation

Hello, my name is Angel Peters. I am a junior at School Without Walls, and I intern at DCYAC. I have done a significant amount of research on various scholarships for highschool juniors and seniors.

The first scholarship that I would like to introduce is the Coca-Cola Scholarship for seniors. Coca-Cola has a wide range of scholarships available to both juniors and seniors. There is a four-year award scholarship for seniors. The program awards 50 four-year $20,000 scholarships and 200 four-year $10,000 scholarships for use at accredited colleges and universities within the U.S. Rewards leadership and excellence as exemplified through academic achievement and extracirricular activities, including commitment to community service. This is available for beginning in August as an electronic application.

APPLICANTS MUST BE:
*CURRENT high school (or home-schooled) seniors attending school in the U.S.

*U.S Citizens; U.S Nationals; U.S Permanent Residents; Temporary Residents (in a legalization program); Refugees; Asylees; Cuban-Haitian Entrants; or Humanitarian Paroles.

*Seniors anticipating completetion of a high school diploma during the academic yearin which application is made.

*Seniors planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S postsecondary institution.

*Seniors carrying a minimum 3.0 GPA at the end of their junior year of high school.

APPLICANTS MAY NOT BE!
*Children or grandchildren of employees, officers or owners of Coca-Cola bottling companies, The Coca-Cola, Company divisions or subsidiaries.

For More Contact Information:
Four Year Award For Seniors
Post Office Box 442
Atlanta, GA 30301-0442
Toll Free 800-306-2653
Fax 404-733-5439

DCAYC Election Edition

DCYAC member Nina Shalal blogged about her election day experience on November 4th.

At Busboys and Poets on 14^th and V, the restaurant was packed with a line of about 200 plus people outside the entrance doors. Waiters and waitresses were running in an out of the restaurant giving the people standing in line hot apple cider to help them cope with the cold weather and rain. Inside, there were even more people than there were outside. There were four TV’s located throughout the restaurant, at the bar, atop the bookstore, one facing the people outside, and one big TV in the Langston room. The chants when the polls notifying the people that Barack Obama was ahead were shown were deafening, and there was dancing and screaming and jumping occurring throughout the restaurant, even amongst the bystanders outside. Located at the entrance of Busboys was an Obamator which was used to count Obama’s electoral votes. By the time Barack Obama was announced the next president of the United States, the Obamator had overflowed. The cheers that broke out then were unbelievable. Everyone in the place had enormous smiles on their faces and everyone was hugging the person next to them. Obama’s victory truly brought the people in Busboys together. After the announcement of Obama’s victory, the police shut down U street due to all of the commotion that was going on. There were people running around with American flags, people banging on drums or anything else they could find to make some kind of noise in celebration of the truly monumental event. The 2008 election will justly be a night that will go down in history.